Ixxi: Pixelated Pictures For Your Walls

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Ixxi: Pixelated Pictures For Your Walls

Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, in pixels

Ixxi is like pixel-art for your walls. The wall-hangings are made up of 20 x 20cm (eight-inch) cards which clip together to make a mural. You can pick from designs already on the site, or you can upload your own.

Once you have picked a picture, you need to put the thing up on the wall. Ixxi consists of plastic-coated "tiles" that are joined together with snap-on x-section clips (with simple i-shaped clips for the edges). These clips then stick in turn to "powerstrips," essentially double-sided tape that sticks to the wall.

Ixxi uses x-shaped clips to hold it together

The best designs are clearly the pixellated versions of old masters. I like the Van Gogh self portrait, and Vermeer's Girl With a Pearl Necklace. Right now you can't pixelate your own images, but as anything you upload is split amongst your chosen number of tiles, you could use a pre-pixelated picture to get a similar effect.

The Ixxi kits are available now, from €25 ($35) for a 4x3 to €85 for an 8x8 mural. I'm totally going to make a giant space invader for my living room.